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27.07.2022 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #136 for download
REV'n'GE (Retro Emulator Vision and Game) is an Italian and English language PDF magazine, not only for Commodore fans, that mainly focus on game REViews.

25.07.2022 - 'Impossible Mission' port for Plus/4 released
Rub your eyes and do a double-take: this time it's real, the legendary C64 game Impossible Mission - written by Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx in 1984 - is now available for your Commodore Plus/4 as free digital download.. The game features a variety of gameplay mechanics from platform and adventure games, and includes digitized speech and is widely considered one of the best games for several platforms.

25.07.2022 - WIP Amiga game 'NinjFeratu' - demo available
'NinjFeratu' is Jump-’n’-run, arcade platformer in the style of Shinobi, developed using AmiGen Engine V1.0 Beta. Requirements are: Amiga with 1MB chip ram (Amiga 1200 is recomended but is not mandatory). The game will be released for free, but for now a demo version is available for early access via Patreon until the game development is complete.

25.07.2022 - Rare PET-style VIC-20 restoration - new video from 'The 8-Bit Guy'
This time the 8-Bit Guy is restoring a rare version of an old VIC-20 with a keyboard that has PET-style keys, which was given to him as donation.

25.07.2022 - Amiga game 'Mision La Luna (Moom Mission)' released
Mission La Luna is a game in the style of the arcade 'Operation Wolf' and is available as digital download for a bargain. Story: In a parallel world, 2 countries are fighting for control of the resources on the moon, you are a member of the USA team and your base has been attacked by forces of the Soviet Union and you try to recover your base and then advance to the enemy base , you will have to fight hard to reach the enemy base. Characteristic: - A game made in AMOS, with love for all the friends of the "Amiga". - Use the mouse to aim and shoot, also shoot at ammunition and energy refills. - 3 lives that will be lost if the energy is spent. - 4 Levels with unique music and a Boss. - Statistics of your performance, and the 10 best.

24.07.2022 - C64 game 'The Curse of Rabenstein' - Point and Click Edition is out!
Developer Stefan Vogt is finally able to present you the anticipated 40th Anniversary (Point and Click) Edition of Rabenstein for C64. It can be played with mouse or joystick and thus differs significantly from the parser driven original game. Featuring wonderful SID tunes by René aka Peacemaker, it's a great homage honoring the heritage of the Commodore 64 that turns 40 this year. Development of this version was done by Sönke Wolfgramm. He also translated the content to German, so that you are free to choose which language you prefer. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain, or get the Collector's edition (a lovingly made physical edition on diskette and sd-card), which is available for pre-order at poly.play.

24.07.2022 - WIP Amiga game 'Farmiga' - new version (Beta 22.07.2022) released
This new 'work in progress' Amiga game is a simulator of a farm and you can get a demo version as digital download for testing. Hardware requirements: 1,5MB Chip RAM / 1MB Chip + 0,5MB Fast (Slow) RAM. New in Beta 22.07.2022: - Added animal taxes. - You can break the scissors when cutting the sheep. - Pests appear in the arable fields. - You can buy a new fence at the mill and cat's place. - Other minor corrections (e.g. at the exit from the magazine screen, we leave the return button and not the right button of mouse as before)

23.07.2022 - C64 game 'S.P.R.E.R.O' V1.4 released
'S.P.R.E.R.O' is a clone of the old classic 'H.E.R.O.' and free for download. The game was also made for the 'Only Sprites Compo 2020' at csdb, which means, the whole game (incl. all visuals) was solely made of hardware sprites, which is simply amazing for itself. New in this release: Fixes small bug where if you partially destroy a wall, it would be removed if you left the screen and returned. Now the wall is restored to full health when you return. Fully destroyed walls remain destroyed.

23.07.2022 - 1/12 The RAM chip conundrum (C64 repair) - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Adrian has ended up with another 12 broken breadbin C64 machines! He figured he'll start making some videos repairing them and this is the first of those machines. He'll probably only briefly show the simple and boring fixes - but will make full videos on the interesting ones.

23.07.2022 - A new Board Game for 1982's Commodore 64 computer?! - new video from 'Retro Recipes'
Peri Plays new Commodore 64 text adventure dungeon board game The Nightland and reviews the game for ZZAP! 64 magazine. Do you agree with his score?

22.07.2022 - Pet2001 core for MIST Board released
The MIST board was designed to implement classic computers like Amiga and C64 (and other 16 or 8 bis systems) as System-on-a-Chip using modern hardware. PET2001 for MiSTer is the port of pet2001fpga to emulate the famous Commodore PET line. Suitable ROMs can be found in the VICE emulator package and should be concatenated into a single file called PET2001.ROM

22.07.2022 - Newly Found 40+ Year-Old VIC-20 Easter Eggs by Commodore Programmer Andy Finkel - new Video from '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Join Robin as he looks through 1980s Commodore programmer Andy Finkel's games and other programs in a search for easter eggs, some of which have never been documented. Commodore policy prevented programmers from claiming authorship, so programmers found ways to hide their names within the programs.

21.07.2022 - Commodore Amiga 1000 Restoration & History | T2T Pt2 - new video from 'RMC'
In the cave they continue the Commodore Amiga 1000 restoration today with a recap and work on restoring the plastics. Neil also dives into Byte magazine to continue the story of the machine and consider if he would have bought one, with perhaps surprising results.

21.07.2022 - 'Super Monza Grand Prix' for Vic-20 released and free for download
This is a racing game for the 16K expanded Commodore VIC 20. Race for position or race against the clock. PAL or NTSC.

20.07.2022 - What is a MOS 6582 SID?, 40 column text on a stock VIC-20 and glorious 8" floppy disks - new video from 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
On this week’s SMMC 0039, Adrian has an assortment of neat things including some original TRS-80 8” discs, a SID chip he has never seen before and a cool homebrew VIC-20 multi cart.